Yeah, that's the problem with guys like the PubMatic guy -- they whine and complain to the government and news outlets that there aren't enough developers in the world. Then, all of a sudden, the media starts putting out stories about a tech shortage, and how salaries for people in tech are on the rise. Meanwhile, the government starts enticing students who lack the aptitude and critical thinking to be able to perform well in software to get degrees in computer science they have no reason having in the first place. So, what happens? More and more kids, with dollar signs in their eyes, enroll in their local universities in order to get a computer science degree. Getting a computer science degree is fine and dandy, but what the market ends up doing is create an oversupply of technical labor; so, you end up having a guy who isn't interested in development in the first place get a piece of paper that's worthless to him since that degree isn't as hot as it was when he first started college. Of course, this gets magnified hundreds of thousands of times over to the point of bubble proportions, but that doesn't matter since PHB at PubMatic has a need right now, and damn the world to Hades if the government and society can't wipe his ass for him.
Yeah, I've worked with a number of programmers at ad agencies who would tell me straight to my face, "I don't need to know math in order to write code!." Come to think of it, there might be something to Kirk McDonald's statement: PubMatic only wants "muppet(s) with a technical degree," and not someone capable of logical and analytical thought. If your employees can't think for themselves, they certainly aren't gonna question the horrible way you manage your company.
BTW, you forgot to mention that there should be copious amounts of eval() littered throughout his code -- sometimes requiring an eval() to invoke another eval(). Ad code has to be the most sloppily written code ever.
I'm sure LucasFilm does, which is why Motorola has to pay a license fee to use the term "Droid" for their Android phones. Also, I'm sure Cisco disagrees as well, since Apple pays a license fee for iOS. Granted, the latter is more an issue of trademark, but I'm sure a five-letter work classifies as a name or short phrase that was contained in a publicly-accessible work.
After reading CalTech and high-powered lasers, I could only think of a ragtag team of students like Mitch Taylor, Chris Knight, and Lazlo Hollyfeld implanting a two-way transceiver into Kent's dental work in order to thwart Hathaway's plans to embezzle funds from the DoD.
They're not doing it wrong -- they're doing it because they can! If MSFT didn't want to worry about an end user (who might happen to be a Fortune 500 client buying an unlimited site license) writing an Excel macro or a program in VBA, these features should have never been included with Office in the first place. So, MSFT will have to support these features or provide compelling enough reasons for their customer base (via more compelling reasons) to migrate to a new version and move their real "programming" outside of Office.
BTW, if you want to know why alot of corporate clients have codebase inside of Office applications, read my sig.
Who says there's anything left for Microsoft to do? What if the Office Suite is so near perfect that is impossible to innovate?
I'm sure they can find ways to improve Clippy or something tertiary in importance.
And why should anyone in their right (or left) mind accept the argument that customers who don't see sufficient value in upgrading are responsible for holding the Gods of Programming from there annointed purpose of innovation?
Because they're "DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!."
Come to think of it, if Kurzweil is right, we'll come across the singularity within our lifetime. So, still assuming Kurzweil is correct, we'll be alive to witness the eschatological event scientists now are just starting to postulate. Granted, we might not care about it now, but we will 10 billion years from now and regretting then not being able to do anything about it while we had the chance now.
I suppose that also makes the Occupy movement (which is chock-full of real and well-documented actual violence and not just standing around brandishing a weapon) and New Black Panther Party members parked outside of PA and OH polling sites for the sake of voter intimidation examples of left-wing extremism. Right?
The problem with the American political system doesn't have much to do with a lack of detail (although it's certainly a byproduct of the root cause) and more to do with political corruption and cronyism of the American politician. You see, often times our leaders tell us that we must spend egregiously for X cause for the general welfare; however, this is merely a smoke screen in order to raid the public coffers to pay back those that got our leaders elected. Unfortunately, this occurs both on the left (under the guise of aiding the poor) and the right (this time as public safety and national security); either way, you're voting in a group who sees tax revenue as a means to enrich themselves along with those who got them elected. After all, the richest members of Congress (in both houses) are usually left-wing Democrats; I often find it hypocritical of multimillionaires telling me that I'm not paying my fair share since both my net worth and my annual salary are vastly inferior to theirs.
Los Angeles isn't much better. At least SF Metro doesn't spend $100 million for an environmental impact study for a proposed trolley service that circles two downtown blocks. Nor does SF spend almost $1 billion to build out less than 10 miles of an at-grade train service -- which is always needing service despite being completed late, BTW. And, I know the politicians in SF do some screwy things, but at least they aren't caught literally in bed with the media (e.g. Villaraigosa). And, at least your liberals practice what they preach -- our lefties in LA can't be bothered with recycling or reducing their carbon footprint by taking public transportation (it's for poor people, after all, and we have to keep up appearances in order to be part of the in crowd).
Oh, another thing -- I've hung out with the hippies and homeless folk in SF, and I've never had an issue even though I tend to wear my Libertarianism on my sleeve. Then again, when I visit SF, I'm usually in Potrero Hill or the Mission District; so, it's possible that other parts of SF aren't as friendly. I know my friends in SF complain about the pretentious hipsters trying to exude deck, but these types are everywhere now unfortunately -- you'll even find them in the red parts of red states. I've even seen them in Louisiana, and not just New Orleans or Baton Rouge, but even in the redneck hillbilly towns.
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Yeah, that's the problem with guys like the PubMatic guy -- they whine and complain to the government and news outlets that there aren't enough developers in the world. Then, all of a sudden, the media starts putting out stories about a tech shortage, and how salaries for people in tech are on the rise. Meanwhile, the government starts enticing students who lack the aptitude and critical thinking to be able to perform well in software to get degrees in computer science they have no reason having in the first place. So, what happens? More and more kids, with dollar signs in their eyes, enroll in their local universities in order to get a computer science degree. Getting a computer science degree is fine and dandy, but what the market ends up doing is create an oversupply of technical labor; so, you end up having a guy who isn't interested in development in the first place get a piece of paper that's worthless to him since that degree isn't as hot as it was when he first started college. Of course, this gets magnified hundreds of thousands of times over to the point of bubble proportions, but that doesn't matter since PHB at PubMatic has a need right now, and damn the world to Hades if the government and society can't wipe his ass for him.
How about LOLCode?
Yeah, I've worked with a number of programmers at ad agencies who would tell me straight to my face, "I don't need to know math in order to write code!." Come to think of it, there might be something to Kirk McDonald's statement: PubMatic only wants "muppet(s) with a technical degree," and not someone capable of logical and analytical thought. If your employees can't think for themselves, they certainly aren't gonna question the horrible way you manage your company.
Yeah, back in the day, I used to kick ass in monesweeper. I would get high score and everything!
He card read good! (Wow! Two Simpsons' references in the same day? Strange)
So, what you're saying is that PubMatic used to do business under the name of CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet before Microsoft bought them out.
BTW, you forgot to mention that there should be copious amounts of eval() littered throughout his code -- sometimes requiring an eval() to invoke another eval(). Ad code has to be the most sloppily written code ever.
I agree with the AC -- it's a self-executing function, and the parenthesis is supposed to close out before you pass your params into it.
You must work for Microsoft...
It was already bloated before it went the OS route.
They're coming for decorative spoons!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_w-hFjqto
Or, 41.32 Mr. Fusions.
I'm sure LucasFilm does, which is why Motorola has to pay a license fee to use the term "Droid" for their Android phones. Also, I'm sure Cisco disagrees as well, since Apple pays a license fee for iOS. Granted, the latter is more an issue of trademark, but I'm sure a five-letter work classifies as a name or short phrase that was contained in a publicly-accessible work.
After reading CalTech and high-powered lasers, I could only think of a ragtag team of students like Mitch Taylor, Chris Knight, and Lazlo Hollyfeld implanting a two-way transceiver into Kent's dental work in order to thwart Hathaway's plans to embezzle funds from the DoD.
They're not doing it wrong -- they're doing it because they can! If MSFT didn't want to worry about an end user (who might happen to be a Fortune 500 client buying an unlimited site license) writing an Excel macro or a program in VBA, these features should have never been included with Office in the first place. So, MSFT will have to support these features or provide compelling enough reasons for their customer base (via more compelling reasons) to migrate to a new version and move their real "programming" outside of Office.
BTW, if you want to know why alot of corporate clients have codebase inside of Office applications, read my sig.
Who says there's anything left for Microsoft to do? What if the Office Suite is so near perfect that is impossible to innovate?
I'm sure they can find ways to improve Clippy or something tertiary in importance.
And why should anyone in their right (or left) mind accept the argument that customers who don't see sufficient value in upgrading are responsible for holding the Gods of Programming from there annointed purpose of innovation?
Because they're "DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!."
Come to think of it, if Kurzweil is right, we'll come across the singularity within our lifetime. So, still assuming Kurzweil is correct, we'll be alive to witness the eschatological event scientists now are just starting to postulate. Granted, we might not care about it now, but we will 10 billion years from now and regretting then not being able to do anything about it while we had the chance now.
So, what you're saying is that we need to have more scientific research done on hair growth and longer erections, right?
I suppose that also makes the Occupy movement (which is chock-full of real and well-documented actual violence and not just standing around brandishing a weapon) and New Black Panther Party members parked outside of PA and OH polling sites for the sake of voter intimidation examples of left-wing extremism. Right?
I'm just trying to get some clarity.
The problem with the American political system doesn't have much to do with a lack of detail (although it's certainly a byproduct of the root cause) and more to do with political corruption and cronyism of the American politician. You see, often times our leaders tell us that we must spend egregiously for X cause for the general welfare; however, this is merely a smoke screen in order to raid the public coffers to pay back those that got our leaders elected. Unfortunately, this occurs both on the left (under the guise of aiding the poor) and the right (this time as public safety and national security); either way, you're voting in a group who sees tax revenue as a means to enrich themselves along with those who got them elected. After all, the richest members of Congress (in both houses) are usually left-wing Democrats; I often find it hypocritical of multimillionaires telling me that I'm not paying my fair share since both my net worth and my annual salary are vastly inferior to theirs.
Los Angeles isn't much better. At least SF Metro doesn't spend $100 million for an environmental impact study for a proposed trolley service that circles two downtown blocks. Nor does SF spend almost $1 billion to build out less than 10 miles of an at-grade train service -- which is always needing service despite being completed late, BTW. And, I know the politicians in SF do some screwy things, but at least they aren't caught literally in bed with the media (e.g. Villaraigosa). And, at least your liberals practice what they preach -- our lefties in LA can't be bothered with recycling or reducing their carbon footprint by taking public transportation (it's for poor people, after all, and we have to keep up appearances in order to be part of the in crowd).
Oh, another thing -- I've hung out with the hippies and homeless folk in SF, and I've never had an issue even though I tend to wear my Libertarianism on my sleeve. Then again, when I visit SF, I'm usually in Potrero Hill or the Mission District; so, it's possible that other parts of SF aren't as friendly. I know my friends in SF complain about the pretentious hipsters trying to exude deck, but these types are everywhere now unfortunately -- you'll even find them in the red parts of red states. I've even seen them in Louisiana, and not just New Orleans or Baton Rouge, but even in the redneck hillbilly towns.
...The Flash is feasting on some Road Runner he caught earlier in the day.
Copyright law states that a copyright lasts up to 75 years after the author's death. Supes has got a while.
If you hire any of them, tell that African prince (they're all princes over there apparently) he still owes me $80,000,000.